Notable Quotable 185

Jan 15, 2024

No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man.

- H. L. Mencken

There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.

- Aldous Huxley

To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

- Aristotle

Those who secretly propagate the admiration of beauty, conspire effectively against today's world.

- Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Whatever its future success as a historical movement, anarchism will remain a fundamental part of human experience, for the drive for freedom is one of our deepest needs, and the vision of a free society is one of our oldest dreams.

Neither can ever be fully repressed; both will outlive all rulers and their States.

- Peter Marshall

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Man as he came from the hand of his Maker was poetic in both mind and body, but the gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

- John Muir

The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments.

Their joy is self-conquest.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.

- Thomas Jefferson

Learn how to see. Realise that everything connects to everything else.

- Leonardo da Vinci